Bio
Mark serves as executive vice president and chief operating officer of EnerVest, Ltd., and has been with the company since May 1999. He is also the President of EV Energy Partners, an upstream master limited partnership of which EnerVest is the general partner. Prior to joining the company, Mark was Vice President, United States Exploration and Production for Occidental Petroleum Corporation ("Oxy"), where he helped lead Oxy's reorganization of its domestic reserve base, including the successful $3.65 billion acquisition of the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve. In 1989 he joined Canadian Occidental Petroleum, Ltd. (now Nexen) where he held positions of increasing responsibility, including vice president of corporate planning and investor relations in Calgary and vice president of Exploration for CXY Energy, Canadian Oxy's United States subsidiary. Mark began his career as an engineer with Kerr-McGee Corporation. Mark was recently inducted into the Texas A&M Petroleum Engineering Academy of Distinguished Graduates. Mark serves on the board of directors for the North American Prospect Expo and is a member of the Independent Petroleum Association of America’s Executive Committee. He serves on the industry board of the Texas A&M Department of Petroleum Engineering and is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.Additionally, he serves on the board of directors for the Methodist Hospital System and on the administrative board of Chapelwood United Methodist Church, where he also teaches Sunday school. He holds a petroleum engineering degree from Texas A&M University and a master's of business administration from Southern Methodist University.
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